Metro Philadelphia Sports Editor

Metro Philadelphia is searching for a sports editor responsible for both planning and designing our free daily tabloid's sports section and managing coverage of the city's pro and college sports teams.

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This is the perfect job for someone with at least some desk experience who's looking for an opportunity to be very creative in covering sports. Our SE is responsible for managing a staff of freelancers and also does some reporting and writing (as much as you want, really) on his/her own.

Design experience (Quark) is a must and connections around the city's sports landscape is preferred (or proven experience developing those relationships in other markets). Pay is in the $40s.

If you're interested, please e-mail Metro Philadelphia Editor Josh Cornfield (jcornfield@metro.us) a resume/cover letter, design examples, and five ideas for how you'd cover Philly sports in a creative way. You can explore some of our past sections at readmetro.com.

You don't want this job unless you are willing to find another one in six months. Company is exceptionally unstable, even in the current newspaper climate. Staff has completely turned over twice in past two years. You might make some decent contacts and get experience, but you won't even get many decent clips out of this.

Just to clarify: Outgoing SE has been in charge of section for 2+ years. The rest of our staff in the Philadelphia office can say the same.

Like all newspapers, there's been some moves, but "exceptionally unstable" is going a bit far.

We've had a recent move back to a system where most of the paper is laid out and sent to the printer from New York (costing us some jobs locally), but our sports department has only been affected minimally if at all.

There could be a sixth, although I'm not sure if the paper actually has named an editor since Auerbach got canned. They've had at least three U.S. directors during this time. The papers are currently up for sale and are bleeding money ($10.6 million in past 12 months)